Video Game Prestige Tier List
Fellow Monkeys,
I need to sip from the pools of your infinite wisdom. Help guide my precious spare time towards only the most white shoe, elite, hoity-toity interactive entertainment experiences.
Particularly curious to see what ends up back office tier.... Many bananas await!
I believe games that have deep lore or story lines and great writing make for top tier games. Red Dead Redemption, God of War, The Last of Us. And then there's the really nostalgic games like Halo 3, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Black Ops and the original Modern Warfare series. Telltale's of the Walking Dead was an amazing storytelling game.
Halo 3 may be the best game of all time actually. So many memories of lan parties with friends
Do I mean nothing to you??
you mean everything to me
As an annoying pseud, Fallout: New Vegas > Fallout 3
SB'd because of the reference to the Telltale Walking Dead series. So good.
N64 Mariokart
Yes you can throw bananas.
Naw man Super Mario 64....though Mario Kart is a close second
These games are too modern for my tastes but still quality.
How about Super Mario Bros 1 & 3 and Kirby's Adventure?
Tbh I think with video games they peaked in the 90s and sort of suck today. People can downvote me all they want, but back then video games were designed to provide endless entertainment for the price of the console. Today most modern game are "pay to win" and have so many stupid add-ons and fees meant to squeeze every last drop of money out of the player.
I burned through controllers jamming on this game! The bar near my home now has an N64 and let’s people play for free. I’ve had to school some of these youngins on it. It’s also fun to blast the lightning on Mario Raceway just as they are about to go off the big jump.
haha yeah good strategy
can't forget diddy kong racing, that game was fire flames
Anything else but Hades does not belong on this list. Skyrim with heavy (like, melt-your-GPU-heavy!) mods for true connoisseurs, as well. Plus Witcher 3, but only with difficulty mods and all DLCs.
Care for a round of Gwent?
Damn, you're ugly!
AndyLouis Tell your team to stop mucking around, that was only a game quote...
For me Morrowind and Doom Eternal are Bx, KKR, Viking, Pershing Square, and RenCap all bundled into one.
PJT RX tier would be Skyrim, Smash Bros Melee, and Yoshi's Island (Gameboy Advance).
Back office tier - Diablo Immortal, Animal Crossing
Had to come this far for the gem that is Morrowind.
Red Dead Redemption 2, Dark Souls, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Minecraft
Super Smash Brothers Melee
All the Fallout series
Diablo 2 & 3
Half-Life
Another mention for Black OPs
Doom 2016 & Eternal
Final Fantasy 7 & 9
Civilization 4-6
X-Com and X-Com2
etc
Civ2 was better.
Smash was the best game for N64.
For story nothing beats FF7.
Civ2 was better... you can play a replica in your browser - https://www.freecivweb.org which is actually better than the orig. or u can download it and download user created scenarios
shoutout FF7. No love for FF8 ?
Nope
Contra on NES has to be up there.
Yeah Contra is goated
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
Mass Effect trilogy has to be #1 for me. Shame that BioWare kind of fell off, hope they can return to form with the upcoming Mass Effect and Dragon Age games
i could never get into mass effect because it seemed like they just copy pasted from star wars kotor, stopped playing after a bit. out of all those RPG type games Fable and Star Wars KOTOR are goats for me (especially due to twist at the end)
If you liked KOTOR you'd almost certainly like Mass Effect. I don't think I'd say it was a copy paste, but it was the same studio so it'll have a lot of the same bones as KOTOR and Dragon Age Origins
I'll say that the game feels less KOTOR-like once you get to ME2 since there are massive improvements to the graphics and combat mechanics
SSX Tricky on original playstation anyone? Damn that shit brings back memories
Played it on PS2, that game was truly amazing
was more of a SSX 3 man myself, but still amazing
Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid. There are no other answers.
The Super Nintendo was truly the golden age of of jRPGs.
Oregon Trail. Watching the pace of development in the video game industry since then has been quite the ride.
I was thinking about this game a few days ago because the smart kids in school got to play the original if they done well on homework or whatever... needless to say I was the only one in the class that didnt get the chance to play it during the year. and that shit still hurts
It is still fun in a nostalgic way, I hope you get dysentery soon.
Dude I totally remember playing this during computer hour in third grade. Computers were those blue boxy transparent macs. My favorite part was hunting. My party always had enough food.
In terms of actual prestige (I don’t enjoy these games the most), it’s the games where you can win serious money for being a top player. Counter Strike, dota, league of legends, overwatch etc. Being good at those games is a genuine skill - you don’t have to have a good “entertainment” personality like streamers who play COD.
In terms of what I enjoy the most - atmospheric single player shooters that are often referred to as “Immersive Sims”: Prey, Bioshock, Deus Ex, Dishonored, Metro 2033, Fallout, resident evil, etc
CS:GO > everything and anything else... and it's not even close.
Runescape >> Toontown >>>>>>>>>>> Everything else
Oooh Runescape is a gem, really quite a unique game and great soundtrack. My first mmo - had no idea what I was doing but was completely enthralled.
Question is though...what tier is it?
Destiny 2
Minecraft
Need for Speed is elite
Wii sports
titanfall2 entered the chat
Surprised it took this long. Literally one of the best campaigns to ever exist.
not console-based, but really liked the Total War series
Surprised that no one has mentioned any titles by Paradox - really enjoy Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria 3, and Hearts of Iron. Incredible games.
Playing these type of games should double as immediate autism diagnosis
Stellaris...
Fallout New Vegas has shaped my brain more than any other single piece of media (virtual or written) and I dont regret it
Fallout: New Vegas, Halo 3, COD 4, Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Super Mario 64, Battlefield 3, Age of Empires 2, Ocarina of Time, Red Dead Redemption 2
Rogan? Wah-nah-nuh, wah-nah-nuh. - Now switch gears and play me Epona's song. - Now switch again and tell me what Yes Man has to say besides Howdy Pard'ner.
Hooray classic gaming!
guys u haven't lived if u haven't played football manager... but it must be a UK thing... I racked up 1000 hours while WFH in 2020. so many memes about it consuming your life, its like heroin
Can’t believe there’s been almost no love for Legend of Zelda. Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild are two of the best games ever made. Can’t wait for the Breath of the Wild sequel coming next year.
Adding in Metal Gear series, especially MGS1-3
Tier 1:
FIFA, Madden, NBA2k, Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, Anything Mario, Halo, Bomberman, Golden Eye, GTA, Mortal Kombat
Tier 2:
????
Tier 3:
...
Top G tier: WOW
Shite tier: anything else
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